Akimoto Yasushi (秋元康) is a Japanese lyricist, broadcaster, and producer for some of the most famous idol groups, including AKB48, Checkicco, and Onyanko Club. Akimoto started to write lyrics in 1981 for THE ALFEE song, Kotoba ni Shitakunai Tenki. He was made popular a year later when he wrote lyrics for Inagaki Junichi's Dramatic Rain. He later went on to be a television and radio producer for program like Yuuyake Nyan Nyan and All Night Fuji. And then in 1988, he married former Onyanko Club member Takai Mamiko.

Good god... looking over his cv at Jpop Stop! has just convinced me that he does not have a room full of monkeys constantly typing out songs for AKB and SKE.

He has written for a few Johnny's groups (Kinki Kids most notably), the grandfather and grandmother of music (Yazawa Eikichi & Wada Akiko), comedy groups, Takada Junji, JERO's big breakthrough hit Umiyuki, EXILE, 'godfather' Go Hiromi, and those are only the ones I know!

He does not need the whole AKB thing, that's how much awesome he is. He probably smokes all those dollar bills you guys give him...

Yes! He's like some James Bond villain. It's will not be enough to have a harem of 'normal' women surround him 24/7. His girls must be nurtured over time and lust over by other men/wota before they can even be in the same room with him...

The 5th Shin Watanabe Award, given every year to recognize a producer's contributions to the entertainment industry, was formally presented on Tuesday. This year's honoree was lyricist/director/producer Yasushi Akimoto (53), who created the idol group AKB48.

AKB48 has become tremendously popular not only in Japan, but also overseas as well. Last year, the group held performances in Paris and New York.

He definitely deserves it, you only have to look at his myriad of works.

The 5th Shin Watanabe Award, given every year to recognize a producer's contributions to the entertainment industry, was formally presented on Tuesday. This year's honoree was lyricist/director/producer Yasushi Akimoto (53), who created the idol group AKB48.

AKB48 has become tremendously popular not only in Japan, but also overseas as well. Last year, the group held performances in Paris and New York.

He definitely deserves it, you only have to look at his myriad of works.

yep, i was watching the Another Sky SP featuring AKi-P and AKB48, and during the course of the interview, i guess i figured also why Aki-P chose NYC as the location of AKB48s first american concert. NYC has been special to him since he was already there producing films ever since 1981 (example is a film for John Lennon's wife, Yoko Ono)

Apparently Yuko was depressed before when she first sang Nakinagara Hohoende 'cuz some of the audience started nodding off. And so this vid shows what AkiP told her that led to being confident enough to stand on the stage again and perform the song.

erm....hi i join this for one purpose, that is to know akb producer contact whether it's e-mail of anything can someone please tell me i'm planing to do something fun for this year AFA as akb fan so i need the contact of the producer anyway it might be rude but......can he read english??? anyway please tell me (_ _)